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Buy Instructor Edition Textbook

I was looking at buying my Statistics book online and noticed someone selling the instructors edition.

The seller says "Instructor's edition w/sidenotes but page number and work problems and its page numbers are identical to student. I used it as a students for 1 semester. still in Good condition. no writings or highlightings. Copy of CD is included with this. Will ship within the same or next business day.:

I hate to rain on your parade, but just remember that using any teacher's edition is probably in violation of your school's honor code and could get you in a lot of trouble. Ultimately, though, if you use it to cheat, you're really only cheating yourself out of an education... Just remember that if you choose to look at the test bank on that CD or take advantage of the answers in the back of the book such that you are at an advantage over other students and get caught, you could fail the course automatically, get suspended or expelled w/o the opportunity for readmission (which usually makes other schools far less likely to admit you as well), or even have your degree revoked after you graduate! ...

Buying an instructor's edition is not a violation of an honor code...it isn't cheating because it would only help you study more, as most teacher's make their own tests. Besides, you're supposed to check your homework before you go to class...don't you do that with your regular student edition? Maybe it's different throughout the university system, but all of my first semester teachers told us to get the Instructor's edition if we could..especially my Precalculus teacher, because it meant that he would have more time to spend teaching and less time going over answers from the homework that weren't in the book.

if a prof actually suggests buying the instructor edition then you're safe, but if you do it and a prof sees it or hears about it and reports you to the chair, dean, or provost, you're going to have some serious difficulty getting them to believe you're an honest student. at minimum, get to know your university's culture first before you do something like that. I'm pretty sure that where I go to school, it would be considered a major breach of our academic integrity policy.

I'd agree with you there, OK. My only concern would be with the Instructor's Editions typically including a CD with the test bank included. Solution manuals can be great for helping you to understand where you made a mistake and how to correct it on homework problems. That's a GREAT study tool!

I used a teacher's edition once. It didn't help since we never did anything but read out of the book (and rarely at that) and at the end of the semester the book store wouldn't buy it from me, so I was kind of screwed. I'd go for the student edition.

Not worth it. All my profs just use the book for readings. If its a class like chemistry or calculus we get the solution manual anyways so I don't see the point of having to read the small text for a textbank most profs don't even use.

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